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refugee camp stories: 22 news summaries

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 Angelina Tours Iraqi Camps 

UN Goodwill Ambassador sees some improvement for displaced Iraqis

Jul 23, 09 4:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Angelina Jolie visited a refugee camp near Baghdad today, part of her duties as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency, People reports. While visiting one displaced family, she asked if they wished to return to their home. "No way," said one daughter, in a reminder of... More »

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Iraq • Angelina Jolie • Baghdad • refugee camp • refugee • Iraqi refugees • celebrity humanitarianism

 Refugee Crisis 
 Opens Doors 
 for Pakistan's 
 Secluded Women 

Women uprooted by fighting gain new access to health care, education

Jul 4, 09 1:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Women's leaders in Pakistan have found an unexpected silver lining in the country's refugee crisis, the Globe & Mail reports. A million women have been forced from their homes by the fighting, upending the Pashtun code of honor that forces women to spend almost all their time secluded in family... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • feminism • women • refugee camp • refugee

(Newser) - Pakistani forces told more residents of Swat Valley to flee during a 9-hour lull in fighting today, sparking an even greater migration that is snarling roads and deepening a humanitarian crisis, the Guardian reports. A quarter million refugees have now registered for help, bringing the homeless tally to 1.3... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • refugee camp • Pakistan army • Swat Valley

 As Pakistan 
 Shells Taliban, 
 500K Flee Swat 

Military bombards densely populated areas; UN warns of crisis

May 7, 09 6:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Refugees continue to flee the Swat Valley in Pakistan, reports the Guardian, where government forces battling resurgent Taliban militants have been conducting airstrikes in heavily populated areas. The government is preparing for up to 500,000 refugees in what the UN warns is becoming a humanitarian crisis. The Washington Post... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • refugee camp • refugee • airstrike • Pakistan military • Swat Valley

(Newser) - The humanitarian situation in Darfur will worsen significantly in just a few weeks if aid organizations do not move quickly, says the new American envoy. Scott Gration said groups expelled by President Omar Bashir last month for allegedly colluding with the International Criminal Court to indict him on war crimes... More »

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Darfur • Sudan • refugee camp • Omar al Bashir • humanitarian organizations • Scott Gration • Obama administration • special envoy

 Anarchy Rules 
 Desperate Congo 

In country's east, rebels and army abandon citizens

Nov 19, 08 5:55 AM CST
(Newser) - Bewildered residents in eastern Congo talk of the "front line" separating rebel territory from areas controlled by the army. But no such line exists—only a jumble of unstable, chaotic territories with no checkpoints or fortifications, reports the New York Times. While a ceasefire between the two sides seems... More »

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refugee camp • Democratic Republic of Congo • refugee • Congo • Laurent Nkunda

S. Africa to Build Refugee Camps for Foreigners

Affluent nation shocked by settlement plan

May 28, 08 9:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - South Africa is planning to establish refugee camps for the foreigners driven from their homes by anti-immigrant violence, the New York Times reports. The shelters, dubbed “temporary places of safety,” would initially house the 11,000 people sheltered near police stations across the country, but could eventually... More »

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xenophobia • refugee camp • South Africa • Poverty in South Africa

 Burma Relief Effort Belies Need 

Junta props up success stories but ignores thousands out of spotlight

May 27, 08 4:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Burma's junta would have one believe it's got the situation under control in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, and even has a test-case diorama as evidence for foreign envoys, the Times of London reports. Sinkan refugee camp hosts 180 well-fed, healthy inhabitants in clean blue tents—while 10 minutes down... More »

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refugee camp • dictatorship • Myanmar • Burma • junta • military junta • food aid • Cyclone Nargis

 Google Tracking Refugees 

UN info on displaced peoples now available through Earth mapping feature

Apr 8, 08 5:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new feature allows Google Earth users to take a tour of the world’s refugee hotspots, with images of camps supplemented by information from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the AP reports. The search titan has greatly improved the available resolution in its satellite photos of refugee areas—... More »

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United Nations • Google • Darfur • Chad • Google Earth • refugee camp • Crisis in Darfur • refugee • UN High Commissioner for Refugees • humanitarian aid

Darfur's Displaced
Battle Hunger, Disease, Raids

Sudan's 2.5M refugees struggle to survive

Dec 8, 07 1:05 PM CST
(Newser) - "It is unsafe for me to go back home and it's not safe here," a resident of Abu Chok, a refugee camp in Darfur currently home to 54,000, tells the Guardian. Residents endure endemic malnutrition, malaria, and typhoid in hopes of security—the camp is 4 miles... More »

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United Nations • Darfur • genocide • Sudan • malaria • refugee camp • refugee • Khartoum • Janjaweed • malnutrition

Thousands Flee Congo Fighting

Civilians in the middle as local militias clash with rebel general

Oct 21, 07 5:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands of refugees are fleeing a new outbreak of fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Renewed fighting has erupted between dissident Gen. Laurent Nkuda and local militias, as well as between Nkuda and regular government forces, following Nkuda's refusal to disarm his troops and reintegrate into the army.... More »

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refugee camp • Democratic Republic of Congo • refugee • outbreak • Kivu • General Nkuda

UN Chief to Visit Darfur Camp

Ban wants to witness plight first hand

Sep 5, 07 5:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit a refugee camp in Darfur to see for himself the plight of displaced people there and conditions facing UN peace keepers who will arrive next year. Ban, who's in Sudan on an official visit, is playing a double role, encouraging the Sudanese... More »

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United Nations • Darfur • war crimes • refugee camp • civil war • African Union • peacekeeping force • Juba • Salva Kiir • Ban Ki-Moon

Top Terror Leader Killed

Led militant fighters in refugee camp

Sep 4, 07 2:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Islamic militant leader Shaker al-Abssi, wanted for the murder of a US diplomat in Jordan, was killed by Lebanese troops in the bloody climax of the battle for the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli. Al-Abssi was one of 39 militants killed by Lebanese special forces Sunday after a three-month... More »

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Lebanon • refugee camp • Fatah al Islam • Nahr al Bared • Shaker al Abssi • terrorist • al-Qaeda

Lebanese Rout Militants in Camp

Months of fighting leaves refugee camp in ruins

Sep 3, 07 3:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jubilant Lebanese celebrated with soldiers yesterday after they finally wrested control of a besieged Palestinian refugee camp from an al-Qaeda ally, Fatah al-Islam. Lebanese special forces attacked strongholds that remained inside the ruins of the Nahr al-Bared camp near Tripoli after nearly three months of fighting, reports the London Times. More »

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Lebanon • Syria • refugee camp • Fatah al Islam • Nahr al Bared • Tripoli • Fouad Siniora • al-Qaeda

Afghan Refugees Flooding Home, Some Forced From Camps

Mass repatriation may be new disaster

Aug 20, 07 4:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Afghan refugees are returning to their post-Taliban nation by the hundreds of thousands, and there are few resources to support them. Much of the repatriation is voluntary, the BBC reports, with newfound stability attracting Afghanis who fled as long as 25 years ago; others have been forced out of Pakistani... More »

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Afghanistan • Pakistan • refugee camp • repatriation • land mines • refugee

Lebanese Assault on Refugee Camp Intensifies

Latest battle may be final push

Jul 13, 07 1:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Lebanon is denying that its latest round of strikes on a Palestinian refugee camp constitute the final showdown with militants holed up inside, the AP reports. Militants in the densely packed warren of buildings exchanged heavy fire with the army encircling them today and shot nine rockets into nearby villages,... More »

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Lebanon • refugee camp

Lebanon Bomb Kills Six UN Soldiers

Suicide attack piques terrorism
worries; Fatah al-Islam suspected

Jun 25, 07 4:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - A car bomb killed six members of a Spanish UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon  yesterday, in the first attack in a year on peacekeepers there. No one claimed responsibility for the bombing near Khiyam, but observers suspect Fatah al-Islam, the same al-Qaeda-spawned Sunni group that battled Lebanon at the... More »

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Lebanon • Sunni • refugee camp • Fatah al Islam • Nahr al Bared • UNIFIL • bombing • bomb • car bomb • Lebanese Army • peacekeeper • Khiyam

Lebanese Claim Victory in Camp

Palestinians holding out in rubble

Jun 22, 07 4:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Lebanese government has declared "mission accomplished" in its month-long battle against al-Qaeda-spawned militants in a Palestinian refugee camp. The siege left 166 dead and destroyed much of the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon, in some of the worst fighting the country has seen since its 15-year-long civil... More »

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Lebanon • Palestine • Fatah • refugee camp • Nahr al Bared • Shaker al Abssi • al-Qaeda

Lebanese
Vow to Crush Militants

Refugee camp destroyed; residents caught as army fights Fatah al-Islam

Jun 3, 07 1:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Lebanese army vowed yesterday to continue its attack on Fatah al-Islam members holed up inside a Palestinian refugee camp in Beruit though the camp is now 60 percent demolished. As many as 25,000 of its 31,000 occupants have fled, the Guardian reports, and thousands remain trapped. More »

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Lebanon • Palestine • refugee camp • Fatah al Islam • Lebanese Army • Beruit • refugee • al-Qaeda • UN Security Council

Army Battles Militants Near Lebanese Refugee Camp

Bombardment escalates as death toll tops 80

Jun 1, 07 9:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lebanese troops continued to try to dislodge militants from a Palestinian refugee camp outside Tripoli today, extending a two-week siege that has led to the worst violence in the country since the civil war that ended in 1990. At least 84 people have died in the fighting, and more than... More »

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Lebanon • Palestine • refugee camp • Fatah al Islam • Nahr al Bared • Tripoli • Lebanese Army • siege • refugee • al-Qaeda

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